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ST IDA OF GHENT, WIDOW AND MARTYR - 20 JUNE

 

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SAINT IDA OF GHENT, WIDOW AND MARTYR

This Saint Ida, commemorated on June 20, was buried in the Church of St John in Ghent - now the capital of the Belgian province of East Flanders - and was held in high veneration there. However, when the highly renowned and authentic relics of Saints Bavo and Livinus, as well as other saints, were brought there, the church (which is the cathedral) was given the name of Saint Bavo, causing the memory of Saint Ida to recede significantly into the background. Later, when the famous exegete Cornelius Jansenius - appointed the first Bishop of Ghent in 1567 - inspected the coffins of his church (which had been hidden during a time of persecution), he found an inscription on one of them reading: "Relics of the holy virgin and martyr Ida." Meanwhile, an old manuscript preserved at the Church of St John identifies her as the mother of Saint Ursula but makes no mention of any martyrdom. In the register of the Saint Ursula confraternity - which the Bollandists*, in their latest volume, have drawn from the Jesuit Crombach - two alleged companions of the saint named Ida do appear under the date of October 21 (IX. 263): one venerated at St Trond (Trudonopolis), and the other said to have been translated, along with a Saint Odilia, to Huy (Huyum) near Liège; yet Crombach contains no indication that either of them was the mother of Saint Ursula. According to Ferrarius* - whom the Bollandists* also cite under June 20 - the Saint Ida venerated at Ghent was a widow and martyr. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869, p. 2)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Ida may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

























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